On Tuesday, a new Georgia Southern organization, Oxfam America, sponsored an event known as the Hunger Banquet. As part of this year’s annual Hunger and Homelessness week, the organization simulated to students what it was like to experience hunger and poverty. Each student that wanted to participate was asked to bring two cans of food to be given to the Statesboro Food Bank. Once the banquet had started, all the students where then placed into differering income groups, from low to high. The low-income students ate nothing but rice and water, while sitting on the floor. The middle-income students were allowed to sit at the table, and the high-income students were even more priveledged.

     One of the university’s professors, Helen Graf, spoke of her experiences while spending time in Haiti. Students who came out to this event Tuesday night became more aware of the issue that is world hunger. Along with this event, students were given the opportunity to use their mealplans to buy canned goods for the Statesboro Food Bank.

During Hunger and Homelessness Week, over 600 were collected in the “Shop For  The Hungry” program alone!

 

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